Saturday, August 4, 2012

Under
the acting Carpio Supreme Court, flip-flopping rulings now appear to be
the norm, as the SC yesterday backtracked on its earlier decision
reducing the participation of a representative of Congress in the
Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) to one instead of two members of Congress
belonging to the House of Representatives and the Senate.

The latest
ruling by the SC displayed once again its vulnerability to pressure
and subservience to Malacañang and Congress as it once again caved in to
Palace and congressional pressure while ruling that the
administration.s congressional allies may sit in the JBC, despite an
earlier decision from the high bench that lawmakers are entitled to
only a lone seat in the collegial body.

In a three-page resolution,
the Court also suspended the effect of the second paragraph of the
dispositive portion of the July 17, 2012 decision which reads: This
disposition is immediately executory.

Just last month the high court recalled an injunction order it had issued the previous day which temporarily stopped the government from implementing a fixed salary scheme for bus conductors and drivers in Metro Manila..... MORE